Relationship between the mass of organic matter and carbon in soil

The quantity of soil organic matter (SOM) was estimated through the determination of soil organic carbon (SOC) times a factor, which assumes that 58% of the SOM was formed by carbon. A number of soil samples with wide range of SOC content collected in the state of Paraná, Brazil were evaluated in th...

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Main Authors: Silmara R. Bianchi, Mario Miyazawa, Edson L. de Oliveira, Marcos Antonio Pavan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2008-04-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132008000200005